Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Perhaps I completely misunderstand the meaning of core.filemode but I
> thought it determined whether Git cared about changes in file
> properties?
By setting it to "false", you tell Git that the filesystem you
placed the repository does not correctly represent the filemode
(especially the executable bit).
"core.fileMode" in "git config --help" reads:
core.fileMode
If false, the executable bit differences between the
index and the working tree are ignored; useful on broken
filesystems like FAT. See git-update- index(1).
The default is true, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1)
will probe and set core.fileMode false if appropriate
when the repository is created.
Maybe our documentation is not clear enough. A contribution from
somebody new to Git we would appreciate would be to point out which
part of these sentences are unclear; that way, people can work on
improving its phrasing.
Thanks.
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